NAME

xoids - X Window Asteroids style game

SYNOPSIS

xoids

DESCRIPTION

Xoids is an Asteroids style game which uses full color pixmaps instead
of vector-style graphics.
The main features of the game are:
Full color
One or two players
Two player game is either against each other or cooperative
You can bounce off of asteroids if you are moving slow enough
Shots impart inertia on your ship
Shots have relative speed
Asteroids have appropriate masses (realistic physics)
The alien (called the Slurb) tracks players instead of wandering
randomly
Thrusting and using hyperspace can overheat your engines

MAINMENU

After the game initializes, you will see a main menu, from which there
are several options. Currently, the only Main Menu Option which drops
you into a sub-menu is the Options menu. At this time, the only option
available is Game Speed. To adjust game speed, select Options from the
main menu and then use the left and right arrow keys to adjust the
speed. The maximum is 100%, and 50% seems to work well on a Pentium 75
machine with an S3 graphics card running Linux. Experiment.

GENERALNON-SHIPCONTROL

Q This can be pressed by either player and it causes Xoids
to quit.
P Pause the game.
ESC Exit to the Main Menu.
+ Increase clock speed.
- Decrease clock speed.

SHIPCONTROL

The following keyboard keys are used to control the ship(s).
UPARROW Activate player ONE’s thrust.
LEFTARROW Turn player ONE’s ship to the left.
RIGHTARROW Turn player ONE’s ship to the right.
RIGHTSHIFT Fire player ONE’s weapon.
RETURN Cause Player ONE to go into hyperspace (disappear and then
appear in a different location).
F Activate player TWO’s thrust.
C Turn player TWO’s ship to the left.
B Turn player TWO’s ship to the right.
LEFTSHIFT Fire player TWO’s weapon.
SPACE Cause Player TWO to go into hyperspace (disappear and then
appear in a different location).

ONEPLAYER

Five ships are allotted at the beginning of the game. Blast away
asteroids and Slurbs until you are dead.

TWOPLAYERDUEL

Points are decremented for dying, but there are unlimited lives. The
first player to reach 20,000 points wins.

TWOPLAYERCOOPERATIVE

The players’ ships are linked via an elastic cable and there are
unlimited lives. Still, like Two Player Duel mode, the first player to
20,000 points wins, which means the game may turn out more competitive
than cooperative, but hey...
The second player uses ’C’ for ’turn left’, ’B’ for ’turn right’, ’F’
for thrust, left SHIFT for ’Fire’, and SPACE for hyperspace.

OPTIONS

Xoids currently takes no command line options, however, there is an
Options menu available within the game.

BUGS

There is a problem with window refresh after deiconification. Running
xoids currently causes X Windows autorepeat to die. Use ’xset r on’ to
turn autorepeat back on.